Kaizen is an approach that enables incremental productivity improvement involving everyone across the organization, managers and workers alike. The Association for Manufacturing Excellence (AME) has pioneered a powerful application based on kaizen service and marketed as the Kaizen Blitz.

The ability to collaborate, particularly in new manufacturing technology development, is becoming a corporate competence that will determine which companies survive in the next decade. With the advent of the telecommunications and information infrastructure realized in the 1990s, companies that can effectively collaborate to get new technologies applied will stand a greater chance of remaining competitive in today's market.

"Collaborative R&D" offers the methods and metrics for developing collaborative technology programs and partnerships, both within the industry and between major...

Authoritative, comprehensive, accessible— the definitive guide to a new approach in environmental policy Emissions Trading: Environmental Policy’ s New Approach presents the work of an outstanding group of contributors on the successes and limitations of this new and exciting incentive-based tool for reducing environmental pollutants. By including the comments of emitters, regulators, public interest group representatives, and academics, the book reveals the criticisms, disagreements, and growing resolution of numerous environmental questions, including:

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This work is drawn from the results of a five-year research programme (the NGM Project) that combined the insights and perspectives of business and academia in the field of manufacturing. This partnership gave rise to the NGM paradigm that defines manufacturing practices. The book offers a framework for applying the operational strategies, product development techniques, metrics and knowledge management approaches that lead to manufacturing excellence. It includes examples from the 15 participating global firms such as Chrysler and Caterpillar.

While much has been written about what "lean production" techniques are, Breaking the Cost Barrier is the first book to explain how to effectively put lean techniques into place. It presents the big picture on how you can understand and adopt the industry-proven techniques used in the lean production environment - and coordinate the best into one powerhouse variation management program. Case studies and examples showcase how these techniques can be applied to control production variability across industries and requirements.